WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Almost 700,000 undocumented immigrants the US Supreme Court just protected from deportation now face the same threat, as a separate challenge led by Texas springs back into action.
The court ruled on Thursday (June 18) that the Trump administration had sidestepped federal procedures in rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or Daca, programme that protects people who were brought into the United States as children. The move was “arbitrary and capricious”, in violation of a federal law that governs administrative agencies, the court found.
The separate challenge, which has been simmering since 2018, argues the same in reverse – that President Barack Obama exceeded his own authority by going around the rule when he implemented Daca in the first place.
